A human player can throw the ball at the last 30 seconds of a match. that is what the horn signals. If it goes in, congrats to the Human player and whatever the hoop is worth the points are given to the alliance. If not, better luck next time!

Teams use the Kinect as a way to use an autonomous however they want. A certain pose by the Human player controls the robot. FIRST is also thinking of using this as a control for teleop for teams who want to. Correct me if i am wrong on that.

I saw no one at Kettering, and heard no one at Gull Lake used the Kinect this weekend.

Our human player also got some baskets this weekend. It's much more common (but difficult) than you'd imagine. He ended up scoring a total of 8 points the whole competition from throwing balls - 2 in the top hoop, and 2 into the bottom hoop

Team 1058, my team, experimented with the kinect with logomotion robot this build season and it worked pretty well. attended GSR this weekend and next regional is boston, but we have code problems, and aren't sure if we will use the kinect.

whatever works for you guys. kinect will take code, but will give you a sort of teleop-autonomous hybrid. No kinect gives more time for improving code, but normal autonomous. Whatever works for you guys is always the best choice though!!

We believe that Kinect's usefulness is very limited. The only scenario I can see using the Kinect is for signaling the robot to begin shooting during autonomous. I don't mean for making minor adjustments or anything like that, I mean "wait until everyone's robots have finished shooting, then start shooting yourself such that you don't interfere with your alliance members' shots.

Either the shooting mentioned, or if your accuracy (like ours) is slim, then use it to write code for your robot to bee-line it for a bridge and tip it in your favor for the balls. You'll be surprised how much of an advantage it can give your team to automatically have at least 2 more balls immediately beginning teleop

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I was at the Alamo Regional in San Antonio this weekend and I don't believe anyone used it (or at least didn't see anyone do so.) I don't find the Kinect useful except as mentioned above when you can tell your robot the perfect time to start the autonomous. It also seems very unreliable being from the side of the robot and being able to line up correctly. Team 118 had auto tracking during autonomous which proved to be VERY consistent. Congratulations to the team that does use it successfully.